Where is the vortex at Ong's Hat?

Question

We were hiking out on a trail along Ong's Hat Rd. in New Jersey across from Anapy's this past weekend but we couldn't find the site, does any one know which fire road it's off?

Answer 1

The weather was dreary as I approached the dirt road turnoff from Rt. 70 towards Ong's Hat. After years of exploring the woods, I had never traveled the dirt trails that wind into the area.

Ong's Hat has been one of the most famous of the New Jersey Pine Barrens ghost towns. For decades mapmakers have placed it on their maps, despite the fact that for the better part of the 20th century, there wasn't a single building to betray its location. The historian Henry Charlton Beck began his explorations here in the 1930s. He discovered a clearing with some rubble from tumbledown buildings and unkempt Indian grass. The town's only resident - Eli Freed - made his living by farming twenty acres of land that he cleared himself.

Ong's Hat languished in obscurity until the turn of the 20th century when murder placed the name of the town on the front page of the newspapers. John Chininiskis, a Polish wander, and his wife settled into town. One day Chininiski's wife disappeared. Rumors began circulating and not long after, John disappeared as well, leaving behind their house and belongings. He supposedly traveled to New York but the trail went cold after that and he was never seen again. Many years later a hunting party came upon a woman's skeleton in the woods near Ong's Hat. After that gruesome discovery, most of the residents who were still hanging on left.

Great site and I think you'll find what you want there. You can continue reading at:
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/content/view/28/45/

Answer 2

No. but if you feel a weird thing that feels like a current, you're at it.